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Re: Any Wave/Astound clue on the list?
From: Jay Hennigan <jay () west net>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 19:35:49 -0800
On 2/22/23 19:20, Mike Lyon wrote:
Going on 12 hours on an outage that is due to a power outage somewhere. According to the Wave/Astound NOC, generator(s) were on the way 6 hours ago… If you could hit me up offlist, i can give you the master ticket number. I’m having a hard time figuring out why it takes 6 hours to get a generator up and running in Silicon Valley.
Is this a cable modem connection? Fiber-to-coax media converters and coaxial trunk amplifiers are fed from AC transformers on random poles or next to random underground pedestals. They need to roll a truck to the location(s) without power and basically set up a generator and plug the power injector into it. They typically use little Honda portables (which need refueling fairly often). Unless you're real close to the cable company's head-end there usually isn't any kind of automatic backup power.
When there's a local power outage near me in Oregon, Wave doesn't even bother with generators as typically their customers' power in the area is out too.
-- Jay Hennigan - jay () west net Network Engineering - CCIE #7880 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV
Current thread:
- Any Wave/Astound clue on the list? Mike Lyon (Feb 22)
- Re: Any Wave/Astound clue on the list? Jay Hennigan (Feb 22)
- Re: Any Wave/Astound clue on the list? Mike Lyon (Feb 22)
- Re: Any Wave/Astound clue on the list? Jay Hennigan (Feb 22)